Seattle II Setlist Bitch and Thread Party - PART TWO

[Lila64]

 

[Axver]

40 is the only way to close a show.

 

[U2MaNaIcWeIdO]

it was only one show, but that sucks no 40.

Strange to close with Vertigo, such a full throttle song, it ends, and then goodbye??

Yea...I'm going have to agree with you on that one.

 

[Westport]

They certainly didn't play the God trilogy:

ABOY
Yahweh
40

 

[Mucca]

Well I'm off for the night

Night everyone!

 

[Lila64]

I don't have any recordings from the PopMart tour... anyone recommend any? I just need 1 good one...

 

[walkon11]

Good night Mucca

 

[Lila64]

mucca

 

[mads]

well, 40 not closing is kind of a bummer. i hope this was just a one time thing, because i don't like the idea of ending on vertigo (or anything else with that much energy).

aaaanyway. bedtime.

 

[*Ally*]

yes, time for me to finish the paper and sleep... it's been fun! goodnight everyone!

thanks again, knox, for posting the setlist...

 

[Axver]

I don't have any recordings from the PopMart tour... anyone recommend any? I just need 1 good one...

Popmart Sarajevo, 1997-09-23.

Bono's voice is shot, but the emotion is almost overwhelming.

 

[CTU2fan]

I don't have any recordings from the PopMart tour... anyone recommend any? I just need 1 good one...

These are all very good IMO:

1997-09-23 Sarajevo (bono's voice is shot, but a powerful show regardless)
1997-09-30 Tel Aviv
1997-12-03 Mexico City
1998-02-11 Santiago
1998-03-21 Johannesburg

 

[PurpleSeven]

Hey I like the Vertigo ending. Mix it up.

"40" live is over rated anyways.

While I may not fully agree with the second part of the statement, the first is dead on. Mix the thing up - give us Vertigo up front and on the back side as well. Go fuckin' crazy. Drop 40, add OOTS - whatever. We've been complaining for years that there was no variety to their setlists, and now that we have some true setlist weirdness going there's the move for a little less variety.

It seems that with this tour, they're still trying to figure the thing out. Perhaps with setlists like tonight, we stand a chance of seeing more of the rehearsed songs. It's all good - 40 or no 40!

 

[U2MaNaIcWeIdO]

Nighty Night Mucca, Ally and Mads!

 

[knox]

40 is the only way to close a show.

I thought that Love Is Blindness and Walk On made good closers.

I still want to see Walk On followed by "40" to close.

 

[Harbinger]

The Ocean, 11 O'clock Tick Tock, Elevation, and Vertigo. Check the link in my signature to U2 concert openers and closers - once there, click the link to the trivia and I make a small note on it.

Hidden beneath the non-scrollbar weirdness of either Interference or Firefox is a golden gem! Thanks.

 

[timothius]

40 is the only way to close a show.

I think Love Is.... & Walk On did a much better job than "40" but each to their own.

People say they wanted it mixed up, then when it's not mixed-up by playing the second sides of Boy & October is reverse alphabetical order.

This tour is like Elevation, its better when remixed.

 

[Lila64]

Goodnight Ally! Been a blast - good luck on your paper wave:

 

[daygloeyes2]

How does that make the concert worse because 40 isn't on the list?

 

[VintagePunk]

Knox, do you have an estimate of what time the show ended?

 

[knox]

I honestly expected that by now, U2 would have come back out and played "40".

I guess I was wrong.

 

[U2MaNaIcWeIdO]

You know what...Walk On would be a better closer than Vertigo...Vertigo seems to be a high energy song...and it doesn't seem to makes sense that a high energy song would close a show.

 

[knox]

Knox, do you have an estimate of what time the show ended?

Probably 3-4 minutes after my Vertigo 2 post.

 

[Axver]

How does that make the concert worse because 40 isn't on the list?

Because 40 is the perfect way to conclude a show, especially after a song like OOTS. Following OOTS with Vertigo just gets you amped again. It's no way to end a show.

I'm still waiting for someone to post that U2 came back out to play a third encore, because it doesn't seem like this thing is over yet!

 

[gmplace0401]

40 is the only way to close a show.

Don't know if you went to any Elevation shows, but Walk On w/ the "Halle...Halleloooooya" ending was an incredible closer. Everytime I hear that song now I think something is about to end.

 

[Axver]

Hidden beneath the non-scrollbar weirdness of either Interference or Firefox is a golden gem! Thanks.

Oh, that doesn't show for you? It does for me. If I'd gone one line lower, I would've had to have used the non-scrollbar weirdness.

Guess I better fix the signature ...

 

[VintagePunk]

Probably 3-4 minutes after my Vertigo 2 post.

Fine, make me go back and look.

 

[Axver]

Don't know if you went to any Elevation shows, but Walk On w/ the "Halle...Halleloooooya" ending was an incredible closer. Everytime I hear that song now I think something is about to end.

Agreed that Walk On's a good closer, but I think 40 well and truly beats it - or anything else.

 

[Harbinger]

Oh, that doesn't show for you? It does for me. If I'd gone one line lower, I would've had to have used the non-scrollbar weirdness.

Guess I better fix the signature ...

nah, i just amp up the font size a little and the last line I see of your signature is "Contradiction is balance: Axver's" so it's not your fault. When I pop the font size back down it's all there.

 

[PurpleSeven]

We won't know if closing with Vertigo was a bad or good idea until review and (hopefully) bootlegs of the show start to show up. Maybe it was sheer inspiration??!! Who knows!